What Can YOU Build?

Using Your Skills Data Skills for Public Service https://smach.github.com/positconf_2025

Sharon Machlis

🎉No Meetings Needed! 🎉

Common Themes

Help people search and answer questions

Make websites easier to use

Pile of papers with PDF labels on a table

Tech Stack

LlamaParse for PDF to markdown (other options available)
Lots of R 📦s: dplyr, stringr, data.table, DBI, ragnar, ellmer, shiny, shinychat, bslib, reactable & more
LLMs to help me write the code!

Official Search Local Meeting Agendas & Minutes

Search Local Meeting Agendas & Minutes

Claude Helping Me Add a Chatbot 😅

Vote sign with arrow

😭

Map

Table

Tech Stack

First blogdown, now Quarto
Lots of R 📦s! Including leaflet, DT, gt, dplyr, data.table . . . .

Community Calendar

Tech Stack

rvest and tidyrss
reactable
Quarto
Linux cron job

Recyclebot

Farmers Market

Links

These slides: https://smach.github.com/positconf_2025
Newsletter search: https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/Saxonville
Election results: https://www.district2framingham.com/posts/2021-11-02-sisitsky-elected-framingham-mayor/
Community calendar: https://www.framinghamevents.com
My calendar w chatbot: https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/mycal/
Recyclebot: https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/recyclebot/
Farmers market: https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/market626
Search local meeting agendas & minutes: https://apps.machlis.com/shiny/framingham_meetings/

Sharon Machlis